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Bug#1135235: linux-image-6.19.13+deb14-amd64: Reoccuring host crash "Invalid SPTE change" with gaming win kvm/qemu guest and device passthrough

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On Wed, Jun 03, 2026, Maximilian Senftleben wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the late reply, took me a while to first built the kernel with
> that options and then actually find time to play long enough.
> 
> If I did everything correctly, then I build 7.0.7 with
> - CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y
> - CONFIG_KASAN=y
> 
> I did not get it to crash on that built kernel yet, however I booted
> 7.0.9+deb14-amd64 once, and after playing a while got a crash again.
> 
> I will try using the built kernel next week to see if I can get it to crash
> as well.

Hmm, can you try 7.0.9 with KASAN?  Or even just a 7.0.9 kernel that you built?
It's possible there's a bug somewhere between 7.0.7 and 7.0.9. 

> Or do I have to look somewhere else if kasan is active?

KASAN reports issues in dmesg.  But generally speaking, if the error is bad
enough to crash the kernel, you'll see a KASAN splat *and* a crash.

> On 18.05.26 15:43, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Odds are very good this is due to host memory corruption, and is not a bug in
> > KVM's MMU.  We (Google) had a period of time where our kernel was triggering stack
> > overflows if a networking IRQ hit at just the right/wrong time, and whenever the
> > overflow wandered into KVM page tables, it would result in failures like these.
> > I got quite familiar with the signature :-)
> Not sure if it could be something else, however I at least run memtest for
> ~12h without problems.
> > If you aren't already, can you try running with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y?  Stack
> > overflow doesn't seem likely in this case since the gfn would put the SPTE in the
> > middle of the page table, but it's easy enough to rule out.
> > 
> > The other thing to try would be to run with CONFIG_KASAN=y.  That might make your
> > gaming quite miserable, but if this is indeed due to a rogue write, it's the best
> > shot for catching the culprit.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 

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Bug#1135235: linux-image-6.19.13+deb14-amd64: Reoccuring host crash "Invalid SPTE change" with gaming win kvm/qemu guest and device passthrough Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2026-05-17 15:30 +0200
  Bug#1135235: linux-image-6.19.13+deb14-amd64: Reoccuring host crash "Invalid SPTE change" with gaming win kvm/qemu guest and device passthrough Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> - 2026-05-18 15:50 +0200
    Bug#1135235: linux-image-6.19.13+deb14-amd64: Reoccuring host crash "Invalid SPTE change" with gaming win kvm/qemu guest and device passthrough Maximilian Senftleben <kernel@0in.de> - 2026-06-03 16:00 +0200
      Bug#1135235: linux-image-6.19.13+deb14-amd64: Reoccuring host crash "Invalid SPTE change" with gaming win kvm/qemu guest and device passthrough Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> - 2026-06-05 23:50 +0200
        Bug#1135235: linux-image-6.19.13+deb14-amd64: Reoccuring host crash "Invalid SPTE change" with gaming win kvm/qemu guest and device passthrough Maximilian Senftleben <kernel@0in.de> - 2026-06-24 22:10 +0200
          Bug#1135235: linux-image-6.19.13+deb14-amd64: Reoccuring host crash "Invalid SPTE change" with gaming win kvm/qemu guest and device passthrough Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> - 2026-06-25 18:20 +0200

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